Sentence examples for civilization it from inspiring English sources

Into this situation Christianity was injected, and in its encounter with classical civilization it absorbed a number of the critiques of the gods of the older thinkers.

The latter would be a grave error — if Turkey is to continue its integration into European and Western civilization, it needs to show that liberal values and Islam are not only compatible but complementary.

But most of the time, for most of the history of so-called civilization, it was taken for granted that in order to serve its broader goals, capital punishment had to be public, it had to be spectacular, and it had to be humiliating.

What we was livin' was not civilization, it was uncivil.

Mr. Lewis himself was singularly averse to that contemporary world and the industrial civilization it spawned.

If envy is a tax levied by civilization, it is one that everyone must pay.

Founded upon remains of a pre-Columbian civilization, it is inhabited by highland Indians, noted for their colourful dress.

China does not just have an ancient civilization, it also has a lot of very old coal.

We agreed that while it might be bad for civilization, it would be very good for journalism.

When "Cast Away" is the farthest from civilization, it is as compelling a cinematic adventure as any Hollywood has produced.

As a parable of savagery versus civilization, it drew comparisons to William Golding's "Lord of the Flies".